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THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1958 NIGHT EDITOR: SUSAN HOLTZER
Earmarking State Revenues
Not the Answer to Fiancial Ills
THERE IS A TENDENCY in many quarters
to regard more money as the solution of
all problems. The attitude sometimes charac-
terizes union leaders on the eve of a strike.
it also sometimes prevails in the world of edu-
cation.
In essence, the argument on the eve of a
bond issue vote runs: "Spend more money for
education and more kids will learn more things
in more 'educationally conducive' surroundings
and America will be stronger.
Often neglected is the question of how can
the morney be most efficiently spent. Ann Ar-
bor in the last several years has shown the
folly of not asking questions soon enough, as
voters willingly approved spending for a lux-
urious new Ann Arbor High (complete with
a soda bar) and later balked at efforts to raise
taxes to provide more pay for the teachers.
More money in itself may not solve the prob-
lems, but in a competitive society, it can at
least help cope with some of them.
COMPETITION between schools for top flight
faculty members has been a recurrent prob-
lem, as University Vice-President and Dean of
Faculties Marvin Niehuss underlined this week
In pointing to a national magazine article quot-
ing the University of California's intentions
to lure faculty members from other schools,
Including Michigan. Yet the statements should
come as no surprise. In the spring of 1957, he
warned the Regents that the University's fac-
ulty was already being raided by other schools.
Competition of an even stronger nature
comes from another direction, that of business
and industry. At all academic levels, the na-
tion's colleges and universities continually lose
men to the greater material rewards of the
Industrial world.
In the field of engineering, the number of
doctoral candidates is decreasing. Also, in some
branches of the physical sciences, the Univer-
sity is forced to use as teaching fellows indi-
viduals who lack the usually required masters
degree because of the much higher pay indus-
try can offer for those who already have
earned their masters.
S IS not merely a problem for the pres-
ent: It indicates the shortage of qualified
teachers for the future.
The Arkans
T HE FORCES of what was expected by all
won out against the forces of what was
hoped for by many when Gov. Orval Faubus
received a third-term nomination in the Ar-
kansas. Democratic primary on Tuesday.
The outcome was never in doubt. Faubus'
two opponents, a Little Rock meatpacker and
a state judge, had conceded defeat three hours
after the closing of the polls. A Democratic pri-
mary victory is tantamount to election in Ar-
kansas.
In his victory statement Faubus said, "The
voting today was a condemnation by the people
of illegal federal intervention in the affairs of
the state and of the horrifying use of federal
bayonets on the streets of an American city and
in the halls of a public school."
It is a statement one -might expect from a
person who did not believe in the United States
government and its democratic form, but hard-
ly from the governor of a state of those United
States. It is a statement one might expect to
read on the editorial pages of a Russian news-
paper, but not in the American press.
As INHERENTLY opposite as are the politi-
cal and economic views of the United States
and Russia, they are no more opposite than
are the views of the federal government and a
good part of the South.
Faubus' victory was merely another indica-
tion of the South's determination to remain
adamant on its integration stand. Adamant
INTERPRETING THE NEWS
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By J. M. ROBERTS
Associated Press News Analyst
THE COMMUNIST and Arab nationalist
countries have recognized the revolutionary
government in Iraq and are getting in their
licks while most of the West procrastinates.
Reports from the Baghdad Pact meeting in
London say its remaining members will ex-.
tend recognition, but are holding back to ex-
press disapproval of assassination as a weapon
of revolt.
There's probably more to it than that. Hair
splitting which makes murder condonable
later but not earlier is not practical diplomatic
procedure.
The truth probably is that the diplomats who
first denounced the horrors of the revolt were
preparing a tentative record on which to base
intervention and have now been caught off
base by the apparent reasonableness of the
nar -vrm,,-a fu lt ....
Yet, the state Legislature, in the words of
Sen. Louis Christman (R-Ann Arbor), decided
to "tread lightly" in a year of falling state reve-
nues and cut the University budget by one
million dollars. The University as a result, has
eliminated over two hundred positions, a good
many of them in the lower ranks of teaching
and research which often help support those
who are working for higher degrees.
As Sen. Christman commented, "Although
some people feel we should consider the needs
of the next generation, America just isn't doing
business that way." A nice bit of rationaliza-
tion, but the statement offers little justifica-
tion for ignoring the future.
Underlying the problem, of course, is the
lack of money for education. Most of the state's
revenue is earmarked for specific purposes,
such as gasoline taxes for highways. Two
thirds of the sales tax goes to public schools.
LAST WEEK, Sen. Christman, who has long
been an advocate of a state income tax, pro-
posed that in adopting such a levy, the state
earmark the entire three per cent sales tax for
education. He contends the earmarking has
worked in other areas and should work for
education.
While there may be merit in an income tax,
one must cast a dubious eye at additional des-
ignation revenue. Such a method limits the
legislature's ability to respond to needs for
which regular revenues at a particular moment
are not adequate.
This year is a case inpoint. Sales tax reve-
nue, based in large part on durable goods such
as automobiles, have fallen, yet educational
needs are rising. Nor even in "good years"
does it seem likely that the tax base of durable
goods will grow in pace with rising population
and educational needs.
A revision of the state's tax structure will
probably emerge from the efforts of the legis-
lative tax study committee. But even ways of
providing more money will not overshadow the
need for efficiently handling it. Earmarking of
funds, no matter for what purpose, will not in
the long run provide the answer to the problem
of the next generation.
-MICHAEL KRAFT
Co-Editor
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LETTER FROM ROME:
Inviting Fan faniHere a Smart Move
miscellaneous others, given them
some snappy, clever lines, and
called it a play.
Barry's play has been success-
ful, it is perhaps the outstanding
example of its kind that quickly
comes to mind, and can provide
its audiences with an entertain-
ing evening, if well done. Furth-
ermore, enough of the author's
moral seeps through so that the
more garrulous members of the
audience get the idea they are
mulling over something of signifi-
cance.
* C C
THIS PRODUCTION fulfills
most of the superficial require-
ments of the play, failing only be-
cause it does not provide much of
the particular style of the parti-
cular set of people Barry describes.
Occasional tendency of the di-
alog to drift aimlessly, especially
at the beginning, did not help, but
the main problem was really one
of direction. A good set of indi-
vidual actors, who are not parti-
cularly comfortable in their roles,
cannot entirely put a play across,
unless they have a definite idea
of how these characters are going
to act in various situations, how
they are going to think, how they
are going to move.
* * 4.
BEA MINKUS played a pretty
warm Tracy Lord. This was mostly
satisfactory, but there were a few
times I wished for the cool ap-
proach. She has a very rich voice
which young Philadelphia ladies
seldom have, and she is much too
nice for unreconstructed Tracy
Lord.
Ann Olson was a real whiz-bang
as. Dinah, Tracy's younger sister.
She managed to bring some auth-
entic full-of-mischief, never-say-
PHILADELPHIA STORY:
Comedy of Manners
Sets Its Own Style
"THE PHILADELPHIA STORY," now playing at Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre, is a 1939 farce by Philip Barry which enjoyed a re-
markable success in New York and the suburbs, then got itself filmed
with original star Kate Hepburn. Later it was filmned again for Grace
Kelly and Bing as "High Society," and now the Speech Department
has had a shy at it.
This play belongs to the "comedy of manners" category, which
means that it is supposed to be long on comedy and short on manners:
slyly spoofing the upper crustaceans, while drawing whatever moral the
author was infatuated with when he wrote the play.
In this case, Barry has dealt out a mess of benevolent hedonist
Philadelphians, a middle-of-the-road radical (this was 1939, remember)
socialist newsman, a self-made man of high moral tone, and some
Tracy Lord...........Bea Minkus
Dinah Lord........... Ann Olson
Margaret Lord ..... Barbara Kaiser
Alexander Lord ..... Patrick Smith
Thomas....... ,. Homer M. Story
William Tracy .... William Teufel
Elizabeth (Liz) liubrie .. Bette Ellis
Macaulay Conner J, Rodger Birtwell
George Kittredge .. Robert Reynolds
C. K. Dexter Haven Joseph Ombrey
Seth Lord.....Howard Green
Elsie..,..---........Trudy Munro
Mac ................ Richard Buck
die, not-a-dull-moment, realism to
this y oung er-daughter-of-idle-
rich role.
JOSEPH Ombrey took a while
to acclimate himself to the role of
C. K. Dexter Haven, Tracy's one-
time husband, now reformed, but
once he was off, he ran a good
race and finished strong.
William Teufel, as Tracy's
pinching Uncle Willie, seemed to
be enjoying himself, and con-
vinced me, at least.
J. Roger Birtwell (an imposing
name) was something of a sur-
prise, because he did very well
with a part which is one of the
play's most awkward. Mike Con-
ner is the 1939 version of Steve
Roper: he's a good writer, but
can't sell, works as a writer for a
low-class magazine, leans to the
left politically, and is something
of an intellectual snob, to boot.
Patrick Smith was a tolerably
energetic Sandy (Tracy's brother,
and not H. L. Mencken by a long
shot) ; and Margaret Lord was a
pretty insipid society lady, al-
though whether Barbara Kaiser is
to blame I cannot say. Bette Ellis
as photographer Liz Imbrie stole
a few scenes in true theatre tra-
dition, while Howard Green made
Tracy's daddy too pompous for my
delicate sensibilities.
--David Kessel
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the
fourth In a series of dispatches
fron Daily city editor John Weicher
who is touring Europe this sum-
mer.)
By JOHN WEICHER
Special to The Daily
ROME-Inviting Italian Premier
Amintore Fanfani to a confer-
ence on the Middle East was a
smart move on Secretary Dulles'
part.
Fanfani's pro-west regime stood
in grave danger of falling when
United States troops entered Leb-
anon; like won a vote of confidence
by the narrowest of margins on
the issue (295-287, with nine ab-
stentions). By the invitation, Sec.
Dulles at least gave the appear-
ance that Fanfani and Italy are'
important enough to warrant con-
sultation on major issues; he gave
the Italian a little additional pres-
tige at home.
* * *
ITALY SEEMS split almost down
the middle over the Lebanon-Jor-
dan-Iraq situation, as the vote
indicates. In the press, the anti-
government and anti-intervention
'DESTINY' A WORD OF MAGIC:
Faubus' Politeal
as Election
as
because it has no stand, in that it does not
recognize integration. The word is not a part
of its vocabulary. Arkansas is assuring itself
that segregation will be upheld, by its sup-
port of Faubus.
Although some people have attributed Com-
munist leanings to Faubus - for reportedly he
was Student Council president, a member of
the Disciplinary Council and gave the signi-
ficant May Day speech at Commonwealth Col-
lege, listed as a Communist institution - Ar-
kansas voters have apparently placed no worth
in these charges.
THAT FAUBUS ran on a platform of oppos-
ing higher taxes but upon election he in-
creased state taxes, apparently matters little
to the Arkansas voters.
That he opposed higher rates for public util-
ities in his campaign, but under pressure from
a gas company rushed a rate increase through
the state legislature after the Public Service
Commission had previously refused the in-
crease, does not penetrate the minds of
Arkansas voters.
What is important, what matters great!A,
what gets through to the Arkansas voters is
that the name Faubus means segregation. It
connotes segregation to them, to other states, to
the federal government and to the world.
And so to the victor belongs the spoils, in
whatever state he happens to find them.
-JUDITH DONER
cest Dawdles
It is too early to accept these promises as
fully valid pending more information about the
pressures under which the new government will
operate. The Allies would like to see a little
more, before they go overboard for the new
regime.
Nevertheless, every day which brings no dis-
ruption of former relations - aside from the
indications that Iraq will no longer act as a
member of the Pact -- increases the prospects
for business as usual.
The matter of morality is, of course, im-
portant to the West whereas it has no meaning
for most of the others.
There are, however, mitigating circumstances
about the assassinations.
P HILaOSOPHICALLY, assassination is a more
or less accepted practice in finalizing politi-
cal developments in every Middle Eastern
Future a BigQusestion
By The Associated Press victory march of former Gov. Sid
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Months McMath, now his bitter political
ago Gov. Orval Faubus sat enemy.
down at his desk and carefully Faubus has described himself
circled July 29 on the calendar as as a "child of fortune." He believes
the "day of destiny." in a little human help for fate.
Tuesday night the mountain boy
who made good in his home state IT WAS no accident or impulse
exulted as destiny arrived in the in 1954 that sent Faubus scurring
form of a smashing election victory to file for governor against incum-
that meant an almost unprece- bent Francis Cherry only a few
dented third term. minutes before the deadline.
But he shed no light on his Earlier Faubus announced he
political future. The Senate in would not run. Then he caught
1960? A fourth or even fifth term Cherry off guard by filing-and
as governor; leadership of a third to everyone's surprise he eventu-
party in 1960? ally won.
*y? * Nor was it accident or impulse
THE GUESSING has begun in that prompted Faubus to summon
earnest now. Faubus' enemies fear the National Guard to keep nine
he will gain dictatorial power Negro students out of Central
within Arkansas and continue to High School here last fall. For
defy the federal government on whatever reason Faubus acted, his
integration. move was planned although its
His admirers hope he will be the explosive effect was unforeseen.
** *
standard bearer of a resurgent
states rights movement. VOTERS this summer saw the
Destiny is a word with nearly familiar face of their governor in
magic overtones for the 48-year- every corner of the state-always
old Faubus. It began when he was well groomed with an ever-present
born, the first of seven children, smile. Faubus, tall and heavily
on a hill farm in the Ozarks. built, was a golden-tongued orator
His early education was at a on television and down-to-earth
country schoolhouse, now called anecdote swapper in the hills and
Greenwood, and at the nearby lowlands of rural Arkansas.
Huntsville Vocational School. He based much of his campaign
* * on the contention that outsiders
LATER Faubus worked his way were attempting to interfere in
through western fruit orchards as Arkansas politics by swinging the
an itinerant picker, riding from election against him.
job to job in railroad box cars He has indicated that if things
and sleeping in hobo jungles. are the same at Central High next
He returned home, held a few September -- in other words, if
minor political jobs, became an Negro students return-he might
officer in World War II and then call out soldiers again- "to pre-
fell in with the postwar political serve peace and order."
forces have been led by the Com-
munist "L'Unita,' which de-
nounced every Western move and
hailed the new Iraq regime as a
"people's movement" as soon as it
broke out.
On the other hand, conservative
papers in Milan and here loudly
acclaimed the United States and
British intervention, and have
been assuring their readers that
Russia will back down and Leb-
anon and Jordan remain free.
*. * *
DURING the first days of the
crisis, large numbers of Italians
were gathered around every news-
stand and store-window television
set; newsboys did a land-office
business. Popular feeling follows
the government and press splits.
A number of Italians termed the
United States' actions "very good,"
and approved the Jordan maneu-
vers. However, some hammer-and-
sickle insignia have made their re-
appearance on the fences and walls
of the cities and towns to the
south of here, and a riot was staged
recently near the American em-
bassy.
This, however, was the only dis-
turbance in Italy, despite a Com-
munist call for a general demon-
stration. If the lack of response
in the other large cities is a gauge
of public opinion, the United
States may emerge from the situ-
ation with Italy as a firmer friend.
* * *
ELSEWHERE in Europe, reac-
tion has been similarly mixed. To
many the Britons in Italy, the
death of Iraqi Prime Minister Nu
Es-Said has been the vital element
in the Middle East so far.
His and King Faisal's deaths
were regarded as more important
than either the United States or
British troops in the area by men
of half a dozen nationalities.
To a number of Europeans, the
loss of Iraq is still the central
matter; without some action by
Jordan's King Hussein to recoup
the "other half" of his kingdom,
the West's bold moves cannot be
more than rear-guard actions.
OF DEEP CONCERN to the
British was the recent conference
between Nasser and the Sheikh of
Kuwait. The island is Brtain's
greatest oil source and a protector-
ate of the United Kingdom. De-
spite the assurances of Nasser and
the Iraqi rebels that the oil pipe-
lines will be protected, Britain and
the other West European countries
dependent on Mid-East oil have
grave misgivings about the present
situation.
The imbalance of power in the
Arab States, coupled with Nas-
ser's control of the oil flow, makes
Selwyn Lloyd's recent comments
appear whistings in the dark. The
situation is too- precarious to rest
where it is, but nobody here seems
to be sure what will happen next.
DAILY
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AT THE MICHIGAN:
'A.Time to Love'
-Story Qf Love in War
" AMID THE THUNDER and chaos of battle, they found a time to
love; and they seized it and held it ... as they held each other,
while bhe pounding of their hearts drowned out the sound of the fury
around them."
Though perhaps a bit overdramatic, this excerpt from the ads
for "A Time to Love and a Time to Die" pretty well sums up the story.
Although its setting is wartime and its hero a soldier, the greatest
battles fought in "A Time to Love" are not fought on the field, but in
a man's heart. The familiar battle scenes are there, complete with
cold and mud, blood and death, but they are incidental to the love
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story of Ernst Graeber and Elisa-
beth Kruser, and to the conflicts
within Ernst betweenhlove and
duty and between patriotism and
humanity.
The story begins in the early
spring of 1944, during the dis-
astrous retreat of the German
Army from Russia.
Ernst Graeber is an Army pri-
vate who receives his first leave
in more than two years and hur-
ries home to his family, to find
only a pile of rubble where his
home once was, and no sign of
his parents.
IN HIS SEARCH for them,
Ernst finds Elisabeth, the daugh-
ter of his old family doctor. Love
blooms quickly, as it must under
the circumstances, and the two
are soon married. The rest of the
story is primarily concerned with
the lovers' efforts to compress a
lifetime of living into the few days
Ernst has left.
From the time early in the pic-
ture when he has to aid in the
execution of four "guerillas" of
doubtful guilt, Ernst is haunted
with doubts about the Justice of
his cause and with the futility and
barbarity of war.
In Ernst, humanity finally wipis
out, a decision which ultimately
proves his undoing. The objects
of his mercy, another group of
supposed guerillas, return kind-
ness with cruelty, and there
comes, for Ernst, the time to die.
THE PRODUCERS of "A Time
to Love" wisely did not tamper
significantly with the original
story by Erich Maria Remarque.
All the' action and much of the
dialogue is taken directly from the
book.
Their most significant mistake
was in casting. The movie features
two virtual unknowns, John Gavin
and Lilo Pulver. Miss Pulver does
a fine Job, and outshines, Gavin.
He goes through all the motions,
speaks all his lines correctly, but
somehow lacks- that extra some-'
thing the role demands. Like an
AT THE CAMPUS:
Don't Mi~ss
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ANOTHER example of a well-
planned crime story, filmed on
small screen black and white with
great effect is "'Rififi," which is
currently showing at the Campus
Theatre.
"Rififi" is somewhat like the
American film, "The Killing," in,
that it has been put together on
a small budget, without any of the
recent gimmicks which are sup-
posed to tear people away from
TV. Stereophonic sound, Panor-
amic Screen, Popophonic Corn.
Unlike Killing, "Rififi' is leisure-
ly paced, but nonetheless exciting.
It relates the story of a carefully
planned robbery and the unfortu-
nate aftermath, when a rival group
of thieves tries to rob the robbers.
* * *
"RIFIFI" was originally done in
French; the English speech is
carefully put into the actors'
mouths so that the result is quite
realistic.
The heroes of "Rififi" are four
likeable French professional crimi-
nals who plot out their burglary
of a jewelry store with great thor-
oughness and seem to be very well
equipped for the job. It is all very
instructive.
The suspense during.the actual
robbery is developed with more
than enough care. Other bits of
suspense are added here and
there.
The only flaw in the story was a
pronounced trend to the overly
dramatic near the conclusion of
the film. After the suspense of
the -preparations and the robbery,
the action tended to drag some-
what, but then the effort to keep
everything moving became all too
noticeable.
STILL THE overall effect was
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